With data growing at 30 percent annually, IT departments are faced with
multiple backup and recovery challenges, including shorter backup
windows, more aggressive recovery time objectives, a need for faster and
more reliable disaster recovery, management of growing numbers of
virtual servers and the need to do more with tight IT budgets. The
combination of ExaGrid and PHD addresses these challenges by offering
customers faster backups, unique high performance recovery capabilities,
and more efficient disaster recovery via offsite disk-based replication
for virtual server environments.

This combination provides fast backups and efficient data storage
as well as replication to an offsite location for disaster
recovery.

The ExaGrid system leverages PHD Virtual Backup’s built-in backup
to disk capabilities and ExaGrid’s zone-level data deduplication
for additional data reduction and cost reduction over standard
disk solutions. Customers can use PHD Virtual Backup’s TrueDedupe™
built-in source-side deduplication in conjunction with ExaGrid’s
disk-based backup system with zone-level deduplication to further
reduce the amount of backup data.

Customers can also perform replication of backups to offsite
storage for disaster recovery purposes, without sacrificing
performance of critical backup and recovery functions.

The technology alliance with ExaGrid will allow joint customers to
leverage PHD’s unique recovery modes, such as Rollback Recovery
and PHD Instant Recovery, with the ExaGrid disk backup with
deduplication solution for reliable recovery and advanced
functionality at the storage level.

PHD Virtual Backup Instant VM Recovery from an ExaGrid Backup
Appliance: ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Backup also offer the ability
to instantly recover a virtual machine by running it directly from the
ExaGrid appliance in the event of a primary storage outage or other
issue that causes the primary storage VM to become unavailable.

ExaGrid’s unique landing zone makes this possible by retaining the
most recent backup in complete form available for rapid recovery.
This means ExaGrid can instantly recover VMs in as fast as
minutes. With other disk backup solutions that only store
deduplicated data, the data must be “rehydrated” before recovery,
resulting in VM recoveries that can take hours.

Using PHD Virtual Backup’s Instant VM Recovery, ExaGrid and PHD
Virtual Backup customers can run the virtual machine directly from
the backup on the ExaGrid appliance. Once the primary storage
environment has been brought back to a working state, the VM
running on the ExaGrid appliance can then be moved to primary
storage for continued operation with zero downtime.

PHD Virtual provides the best value in virtual backup for VMware and
Citrix and monitoring solutions for physical, virtual and cloud
environments. More than 5,000 customers worldwide rely on its products
because they are effective, easier to use and more affordable than
competitive alternatives. ExaGrid is uniquely suited for virtual machine
backups because the ExaGrid system deduplicates the data after it’s
written to disk, which means users gain the maximum backup and restore
speeds available.

Supporting Quotes:

Joe Noonan, director of product management for PHD Virtual: “We
are very excited to announce a technology alliance with ExaGrid. The
synergies between the two products in the areas of redundancy and
backup and recovery flexibility provide customers an excellent value
and powerful solution for virtual data protection.”

Marc Crespi, vice president of product management for ExaGrid: “The
amount of data in virtual infrastructures is continuing to grow,
putting pressure on IT departments to implement faster and more
reliable virtual data protection. Partnerships such as this one allow
IT departments to confidently expand their virtual environments, keep
backup windows permanently short, easily scale the system as data
grows with no forklift upgrades, and instant recover VMs when needed
to avoid costly downtime.”

ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data
deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique
architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. ExaGrid
is the only solution that combines compute with capacity and a unique
landing zone to permanently shorten backup windows, eliminate expensive
forklift upgrades, achieve the fastest full system restores and tape
copies, and rapidly restore files, VMs and objects in minutes. With
offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 5,200 systems
installed at more than 1,600 customers, and more than 320 published
customer success stories.